A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids?

Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!

Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.

... my mind lay limp in an empty world.

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.